What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today’s Leading Minds Rethink Everything

The world’s finest minds have responded with some of the most insightful, humbling, fascinating confessions and anecdotes. -San Francisco Chronicle

Even geniuses change their minds sometimes.

Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online intellectual salon, recently asked 150 high-powered thinkers to discuss their most telling missteps and reconsiderations: What have you changed your mind about The answers were brilliant, eye-opening, fascinating, sometimes shocking, and certain to kick-start countless passionate debates.

Read Steven Pinker on the future of human evolution * Richard Dawkins on the mysteries of courtship * Sam Harris on the indifference of Mother Nature * Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the irrelevance of probability * Chris Anderson on the reality of global warming * Alan Alda on the existence of God * Lisa Randall on the secrets of the Sun * Ray Kurzweil on the possibility of extraterrestrial life * Brian Eno on what it means to be a revolutionary * Helen Fisher on love, fidelity, and the viability of marriage * Irene Pepperberg on learning from parrots… and many others.

A jolt of fresh thinking. ‘-Toronto Globe and Mail